On December 13, 2001, law enforcement in Early, Iowa converged on the home of Tracey and Michael Roberts.
Alone with her three children — sons Bert, 11, and Noah, 3, and 2-year-old-daughter Mason — Tracey told authorities she’d just gone through a home invasion that left an intruder dead.
The victim, Dustin Wehde, 20, was “a neighbor kid,” Tracey’s defense attorney Karmen Anderson told Kill or Be Killed, airing Saturdays at 9/8c p.m. on Oxygen.
Tracey, then 35, claimed she fired in self-defense, NBC News reported. She used two guns to shoot Wehde nine times. An alleged second invader reportedly fled.
Tracey’s son Bert Richter told Kill or Be Killed that when he walked into the hallway that night, he sawWehde on the ground and starting to get up before his mother shielded him and told him to get into his room. “I closed the door and I could hear her repeatedly say, ‘Stay down. Don’t get up,'” Bert said. “And then I …